Stump Grinding
Stump grinding for lawns and yards. Full stump removal with the excavator when the ground is getting cleared or built on.
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Carolina Beach sits on the north end of Pleasure Island, the barrier island just south of Wilmington. The town holds about 2.45 square miles of land, and about 6,500 people live in town. Building lots run small and sit close together, often near the 5,000 square foot minimum under R-1-B zoning. Work here leans toward demolition and small lot clearing rather than the big acreage jobs we run inland.
Coastal Brush Mowing has run land clearing and excavation out of Burgaw since 2013, more than a decade now. Carolina Beach sits about 38 miles south of our shop, close to a 45 minute drive. Every load crosses the Snows Cut Bridge on US 421, the only road onto or off the island. We plan machine moves and haul trips around that, and the person who answers the phone runs the machine.
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Most Carolina Beach lots already hold a structure, so clearing usually starts with taking something down first. Old cottages, sheds, slabs and cracked driveways come out before a new elevated house can go up. The house next door often sits a few feet off the property line, so the excavator works in short reaches. Debris leaves the island by dump truck, since a beach lot has nowhere to stack or burn it.
New Hanover County issues the building and trade permits here, including the permit to demolish or move a structure. The Town of Carolina Beach handles zoning approval, so two offices touch the same job. Once the structure is gone we pull footings and old fill, then bring the pad back to grade. Grading and dirt work is what turns a demo lot into a pad a builder can set piles on.
Carolina Beach sits about 13 feet above sea level, and the low streets hold water after hard rain. In September 2024 an unnamed storm dropped more than 20 inches of rain in about a day. The town called it the worst flooding in recent history, with at least $10 million in damage. Since then the town has put money into stormwater pumps and retention walls on the wettest streets.
On a private lot that means clean fill hauled in and the yard shaped to move water off. Sandy soil here moves fast, so a pad gets built and compacted rather than pushed around once. Our tracked skid steer reaches side yards and back lots where a full size excavator will not fit. After a storm we clear downed limbs and pull ruined decks, then handle stump grinding on what is left.
Communities & areas we serve around Carolina Beach: Wilmington Beach, Hanby Beach, Carolina Sands, Island Forest, Seagrove, Ocean Heights.
Carolina Beach ZIP codes served: 28428.
Free, no-obligation estimates throughout New Hanover County.
(910) 512-9578 Stump grinding for lawns and yards. Full stump removal with the excavator when the ground is getting cleared or built on.
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Rotary cutting for overgrown fields, pastures, vacant lots and fence lines across southeastern North Carolina.
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Excavation for building pads, trenches, culverts and drainage cuts. We dig it, load it out, and leave the ground at the grade your plan calls for.
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Houses, mobile homes, sheds, barns and old slabs taken down and hauled away, with the ground left clean and level.
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Land grading, house pads, gravel driveways and drainage swales across Pender County. We cut and fill the ground so water runs off it and away from the house.
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We grind underbrush and small trees into mulch on site, so the wood stays as ground cover.
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Land to clear, an old structure to take down, brush that's won too many summers, or a pond you've been thinking about for years? Call or send the form. We come look at the property with you and the estimate is free, from the owner who has worked this ground since 2013.
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